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I’d like to highlight four articles related to Resident Evil 5 that I read recently at Crispy Gamer. The first is an interview with Resident Evil 5‘s Director, Jun Takeuchi, in which the interviewers discussed the cultural and racial issues raised by the game’s content and asked Takeuchi what his goals were for the game. The second is a really excellent follow-up to the…

Last week, N’Gai Croal was on 1UP’s Listen UP podcast on 20th March, and during part of the podcast he discussed race, racism, and Resident Evil 5 with the other guests. A transcript of this part of the podcast was posted over on the Iris Gaming Network. Below are some quotes from N’Gai Croal. N’Gai Croal (emphasis mine): I interviewed Takeguchi,…

Wesley Yin-Poole of VideoGamer.com interviewed Glenn Bowman, Senior Lecturer at the University of Kent, about Resident Evil 5 and its racist content. Yin-Poole called Bowman “one of the UK’s leading experts on racism”. In one of my previous posts, I suggested that Bowman may not be the most qualified academic to consult because none of his specialties include research on race issues or racism, based upon…

UPDATE: There is an update to this story here. Recently, VideoGamer.com interviewed an “expert” to ask him whether the imagery in Resident Evil 5 was racist. The academic expert they consulted was Glenn Bowman, Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Kent. Bowman said that Resident Evil 5 is not racist in that interview. Bowman even went so…

After I started my new job at ArenaNet a few months ago, I was going to respond immediately to the bigoted, ignorant, and narrow-minded views of several people in various gaming communities. Since then I’ve been busy at work and at home, and frankly I haven’t been in much of a mood to blog, nor have I been able to…